Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 11:54:34AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost> writes: >> >> > But how many people use pkgsrc and never build a C++ package? >> >> I think if you use pkgsrc on an odd arch, on a very small computer, and >> only build a few things, to make a firewall box usable, then you might >> well not need to build C++. But I agree that it's unclear if this >> population is big enough to worry about. > > Slightly off topic, but wasn't the point of dab(6) to get a C++ program > into NetBSD base? (Admitedly, you don't need the games set on a firewall, > bar tetris.) I think we should have been saying C++11, not C++. Base system compilers tend to be ok with C++03. The issue isn't really C++, but the time delay between when a NetBSD release with a particular gcc happened and when significant upstream packages don't build with those gcc versions. But, this is rapidly becoming the same thing as upstreams of packages in C++ are tending to allow use of C++11 features.
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